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1) Well, the simple answer is because of the power of looove! But I don't like that answer. Her survival can be interpreted in two ways:

a) we know that the resurrection item has to be used within 10 seconds after one's death in order to revive them. Their body breaks into shards after that. But how long does it take for the NervGear to fry their brain? It could be anything from 10 seconds to a few minutes. In the novels, you create your own pacing, so I assumed that 10 seconds hadn't passed since her death.

b) or, alternatively, Kayaba may've "protected" Asuna as Kirito asked him to make sure she doesn't commit suicide in case he dies. He may've just saved her at the last possible moment.

Honestly, I don't like b) at all, as a) was the impression I got when I was reading the light novels..

2) Yeah, the 10 second limit before players' bodies vanish. Their bodies seem very weak in that semi-transparent state, but Heathcliff's sword was keeping Kirito standing (kind of hard to fall while something like that is keeping you up), so all he had to do was just stab Heathcliff with Asuna's rapier. You can interpret it as you wish (power of love, willpower, and etc), but players seem to be able to move their bodies just fine after running out of HP. Well, not exactly, but they were able to move their hands, for example, Diabel was able to move his hand to refuse Kirito's crystal/potion.

Spoiler for questions regarding this:

Wait, am I understanding this right? If it's up to interpretation so there wasn't an underlying mechanism for why some people were able to overcome the system by sheer force of will alone? It just happened? Not even a canon in-universe explanation of something like "The One" or some retcon monologue or narration or anything? Author managed to give an awesome exposition in world building but failed to address this? Really?

If it's really up to interpretation then nobody can really fault anyone for thinking these things being a DEM or just some conveniently placed plot material.

May I ask then, if all these things were all actually possible and can be (and supposed to be) explained with all previously appearing phenomenon, what does Kayaba mean with Kirito transcending the rules?

Wait, am I understanding this right? If it's up to interpretation so there wasn't an underlying mechanism for why some people were able to overcome the system by sheer force of will alone? It just happened? Not even a canon in-universe explanation of something like "The One" or some retcon monologue or narration or anything? Author managed to give an awesome exposition in world building but failed to address this? Really?

If it's really up to interpretation then nobody can really fault anyone for thinking these things being a DEM or just some conveniently placed plot material.

May I ask then, if all these things were all actually possible and can be (and supposed to be) explained with all previously appearing phenomenon, what does Kayaba mean with Kirito transcending the rules?

Spoiler for Answer to the question (from Vol. 1 and 10 ):

Well that depends if you want an actual explaination for that phenomena or only the acknowledgement of it:

The acknowledgement itself happens already in the first Volume as Kirito states that Asuna could overcome her paralysis per willpower, so he had to overcome his death per willpower.

The explaination, well, that's something that happens late, actually it never is really explained for how Kirito and Asuna were able to pull that off, problem is this phenoma is recurring so you imo don't need an explaination for it as it still is part of the plot and wants to be a mystery (ofc I hope that it will expained at the end and not simply left out)

Well if you go up to Vol. 10 then you have your explaination for it, the problem there is that this is Underworld and in that "game" you have much more possibilities than before, so it doesn't need to be the same for Aincrad.

Ah and for your second question:

Well ofc that was NOT part of the game, otherwise Kayabe wouldn't have been so surprised after Asuna got out of the paralysis. If you read what he says to this it seems as he himself is wavering between that this was a bug and that this was her willpower, so he himself has no explaination for it.

Also pls don't forget that this is told out of the POV of normal characters, so if they have no explaination for sth, as there is no almighty narrator, there simply exists no explaination, although Kirito mostly makes assumptions for unnatural things that occured him

The way my company (I work for an international pizza delivery chain, which is currently dominating the delivery segment of the Malaysian market) operates is primarily cash, and we try not to do refunds, instead replacing the entire order if need be. For a credit card order like Klein's, our customer service center isn't allowed to process refunds - the customer needs to make the refund request, via filling in a form, which our team will assist them on.

But since Klein's unable to fill that form, he gets no refund. And if he wanted to get a refund after he came out, well... It's a bit too long ago to do anything about.

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well, yeah it could be used but as far as I know, when every files and accounts have been deleted, there is nothing left xD

It's surprising to be able to use an "old" account in another game, even on the same server. Surely, Asuna didn't create any other account on a VRMMORPG game nerve gear compatible.

And I don't see why Kayaba would have developped another game at the same time ?

Spoiler for Pointing out dialogues in Ep15 that might answer the question.:

Watch episode 15 again, and pay attention to minutes 14:20 to 15:00
Sugou mentions that Argus after the SAO incident went bankrupt and dissolved. Of course someone had to keep the servers online, and their maintenance was entrusted, most likely by the government, to Asuna's father company where Sugou worked too. There's no timeframe but from how he words it you can guess that Argus was dissolved soon after the incident came to light and all this time the original SAO servers have been under Sugou's control way before the game was cleared and most were logged off.

Him being the slimeball shown he is, you can imagine the rest.

Also we don't know about SAO, but on other MMROPGs they do periodical backups of the data.